The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-11-03
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iBnw Young Men Can Achieve Success In
Their Chosen Calling.
Earnest. Independent thought on the
part of any boy or young man who has
set out to make 4 mechanic OF himself
will certainly bring him both knowledge
and skill in his chosen calling.
We hear OF see statements every littl0
while that rs machine shops gradually
grow into manufacturing concerns the
work is systematiAcd until there IS
nothing but routine in the different
classes Of work. and boy apprcnticed
to one of these establishments "gets no
show in the shop. and is ''no good"
when his time Is out.
That a graduate from, say. steam
pump shop. going to any other shop
doing = different class of work. must
work for small wages. in order to ''hold
Il job. because he can not take hold OF
work rs it comes along and do il in
telligently. He il pictured as being
sent out Of the shop 10 make repairs
upon a steam engine. or line up 4 shaft
in a brewery, or to fix an hydraulic
elevator that is OIL Il strike.
After wasting an hour or two OF
time. he admits that he is stuck"
and goes crcstfallen back to the shop,
taking this message 10 the foreman:
..Send up machinist next time And
then the parties get their work done at
some other shop. and refuse to pay for
what our pump man has done, because
he did not know what he was about.
He actually caused damage by his
ignorance. Why is this? lie might
have been a good man in pump shop,
but fails Immediately on attempting
printing press or sewing machine work.
He has learned to turn and bore. to
plane and slot, to chip. file and scrapc,
but he fails when asked to perform any
of these operations on any thing except
steam pump. Is it because he has
not learned to do these things well, or
because he did not use his brains while
learning to use his hands?
Machine shops are always over:un
with applicants for apprenticeship. But
nine-tcnths of the applicants for plaoes
never think of any thing beyond get.
ting into the shop. Ofthcir own fitness
for the machinisfs' trade they never in-
quire into They expect to work three
years for little less pay than tEoy
could get shoyeling, and then blossom
at once into tirst-class. welI-paid ma
chinist. with no particular mental effort
on their part. The result is easy to see.
We see it every day in tho army Of
monest work, and oftcntimes in only .
single branch of the trade of which they
call themselves masters.
This, claim. is from want Of thought
on the part Of the boy or man himself.
The steam-punp man. if he has mas
tered the trade as far as taught in tho
stcam-pump shop, has mastered the
principles upon which the stcam-pump
operates. and is a competent man to
| send out 10 repair . gas engine or
printing press, But this he can not
do without thought. and thought is but
another name for study. Tho study
that it takes to master the principles Of
the stcam-pump will incidentally bring
knowledge Of other machinery that can
rot fail to be Of use some time.
A boy once taught the habit Of indi-
vidual thinking about his work. a place
| in the front rank of mechanics is sure
to be his. Thought will give him con-
fidcnce ard skill. and with these two
elements in his mechanical makeup
he will prove valuable man anywhere
he is employed. whether they build
saw-mill machinery or machine tools to
build saw-mill machinery with
| 1dnle rican MachiniSt.